Has the recent global warming caused increased drying over land?

85th AMS Annual Meeting, American Meteorological Society - Combined Preprints

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2161-2170

  Dai, Aiguo ^a   Qian, Taotao ^a   Trenberth, Kevin E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND SURFACE MODEL; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDEX (PDSI); SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOLAR RADIATION;

GLOBAL WARMING;

EID: 30044449790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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